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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Harris Word Salad on Late Night, Colleges & Universities Overrun by Antisemitic Hate, plus Democrats Turn on Their Own Week In Review
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Ted Cruz
Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Week in Review. Ben Ferguson with you. And we had some major stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week. First up, Kamala Harris. While Americans are suffering from a second hurricane within weeks hitting Florida, she was on late night television drinking beers and well, doing podcasts called Call Her Daddy. The worst part is even on these shows, she was a word salad princess. We'll have that for you in a moment. Plus, what's going on on our college campuses and universities and how are they able to brainwash so many kids with terrorist propaganda backing Hamas and Hezbollah, especially on the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Israel? We'll dive into that. And finally, there is a very interesting thing that's happening in this country. Democrats who are leaving the Democratic Party to join the Republican Party that are currently in office. So what happens to them when they change parties? We're going to tell that story with one elected official that stood up to the extremists in her own party, the Democratic Party. It's the Weekend Review and it starts right now. She tried to redo, by the way, on her question of what she would do different. This was when she decided to go on Stephen Colbert last night. And here's what she said when she was asked about, hey, would you be any different than Joe Biden? Now, I, I'm, I have a theory, Senator. I think they said, can you re ask that question? Because there are other answers.
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Ben Ferguson
That was entirely staged. The campaign realized, oh, my goodness, this was a disaster of an answer. You've just given Trump their lead campaign commercial heading into the election. So let's tee up and give a different answer. And of course, Stephen Colbert, you know, I'm actually surprised he wasn't wearing like a cheerleader like miniskirt and pom poms because it is not complicated who he's rooting for. But go ahead and play the clip. Polling shows that a lot of people, especially independent voters, really want this to be a change election and that they tend to break for you in terms of thinking about change. You are a member of the president administration under a Harris administration.
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Ted Cruz
What would the major changes be and.
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Ben Ferguson
What would stay the same?
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Kamala Harris
Sure. Well, I mean, I'm obviously not Joe Biden. I noticed. And so that would be one change in terms of but also I think it's important to say with, you know, 28 days to go, I'm not Donald Trump. And so when we think about the significance of what this next generation of leadership looks like try to be elected president, it is about, frankly, I love the American people and I believe in our country. I love that it is our character in nature to be an ambitious people. You know, we have aspirations, we have dreams, we have incredible work ethic. And I just believe that we can create and build upon the success we've achieved in a way that we continue to grow opportunity and in that way grow the strength of our nation. So, for example, my economic policies, I. I think of it, and I've named it as creating an opportunity economy. So it's about things like investing in small businesses. I love our small businesses.
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Ted Cruz
I love this part where she's like, I created it like out of thin air, Senator. I created it. I've created. And I named it like it's a puppy. I've named it like. She didn't give any answer there, right? It's just. She just says, I love the American people and we have ambition, quote, unquote.
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Ben Ferguson
Look, that answer, it's actually screamingly funny and at the same time, screamingly terrifying. So Colbert's tried. He's like, look, people desperately want change. The entire fiction of your campaign is you're the change candidate, except for the fact that you're the incumbent administration and every other vice president in history who's run for election has run on continuity. Continue the successes. Well, you know that the successes are very few and that the record is a train wreck. So you want change because people aren't happy with your disastrous record. So what would you change now? Now that, actually, to call that a softball is an insult to softballs. That's a T ball. That's a giant kickball.
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Ted Cruz
It's a setup, though. Like, we need to just be intellectually honest about this. Like, this was a clear. We need to redo. We're going to use.
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Ben Ferguson
But I got to say, I don't know if her campaign is just miserably incompetent or she is, or both, but for a setup, that may be the worst answer I've ever heard. Because she talks. I mean, the phrase word salad is used a lot, but she says, well, the change is I'm not Joe Biden, okay? And I'm not Donald Trump. That's the whole change. And then I love. What else is the change? The next thing she says, I love America.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah.
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Ben Ferguson
Oh, my goodness. So your. Your position is Joe Biden doesn't love America. That's the change. He literally says, I love America. That's the change. Unlike those evil, mean bastards that aren't me.
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Ted Cruz
Well, and the other thing is, they try to Humanize her. She cracked open a beer with Stephen Colbert and that got like a full segment on cnn, which was hysterical. And then you go back to what she actually says, and the Vice President of the United States of America said, and I want you to listen for this. The American dream right now is really elusive. Is she trying to write another ad for Donald Trump? Listen.
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Kamala Harris
The American dream right now is really elusive for far too many people in terms of even aspiring to own a home. It's too expensive. We don't have enough housing. We have a housing shortage. So part of my plan is to work with the private sector, with builders and developers, to build 3 million more homes by the end of my first term, and to give first time home buyers a $25,000 down payment assistance so they can just get their foot in the door to homeownership, which is the fastest and the most efficient way for people to build intergenerational wealth. These are the ways that I think about how we build up our country in a way that is about supporting the middle class. I come from the middle class. I'm never going to forget where I come from.
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Ted Cruz
I love it. Middle class is apparently really tough for her. If you know her history, it. You kind of got to roll your eyes at that. But this idea, she says, everything's bad right now. Far too many people in turns even aspiring to own a house because there's not enough houses. Well, why is that? Because the illegal immigrants you've allowed into this country by the tens of millions.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, of course, Colbert pressed back with that, right?
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Ted Cruz
No, no, no, he did not. They just, they just decided to drink a beer instead. Because that's how you do an interview now when it's somebody that no one's voted for and we're just, you know, less than 30 days away from, you know.
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Ben Ferguson
By the way, I will say I think it is fitting that that was a comedy show because if you recall, in her debate with Donald Trump, the opening question was elections. Come down to the question, are you better off now than you were four years ago? And so, Madam Vice President, are the American people better off now than they were four years ago? And her answer was, I came from the middle class. Like, it's become a punchline because it was such a non sequitur. She's unable to say yes because the record is a disaster. And so she just, she has this talking point and the fact that at a comedy show, she goes back to why come from the middle class? Apparently some focus group somewhere told her that was a Good thing to say. And she doesn't have anything else to say.
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Ted Cruz
Senator, two quick things I want to bring up. And it dealt with foreign policy. Kamala Harris has refused to directly answer if Netanyahu is a ally of our country. Here's what she said in the 60 Minutes interview that was shocking as well.
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Sean Theory
Do we have a real close ally in Prime Minister Netanyahu?
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Kamala Harris
I think, with all due respect, the better question is, do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people? And the answer to that question is yes.
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Ted Cruz
So she throws our relationship with a leader that was elected by the people in Israel, Netanyahu, under the bus. And she clearly is saying there is separation between me and Netanyahu and Israel. She had to make that, that comment, I think, in her mind, to keep the radicals that are anti Jewish, anti Semites, who support Hezbollah and Hamas on her side. That's why she was so, I think, careful with her words there. To say, he's not my guy. I mean, I'm fine with Israel, but not him.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, look, she clearly hates Benjamin Netanyahu. And that, that's true of this entire White House. It's true of Joe Biden, it's true of most of the Democrats. And remember, Kamala Harris, as the sitting vice president, boycotted Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress. I was there sitting on the floor of the House. Prime Minister Netanyahu gave an extraordinary address. And you know, the vice president, you know, the old line is it's a job that's not worth a bucket of spit. But among the very few responsibilities of the vice president are to sit and preside on a joint session of Congress, to sit your rear end down in that chair while someone addresses a joint session of Congress. Well, she loathes Prime Minister Netanyahu so much, she refused to attend. And so her answer, does she consider Netanyahu an ally? No. And frankly, she can barely bring herself to describe Israel as an ally. Listen, there is a growing pro Hamas wing of the Democrat Party, and Kamala Harris clearly wants their vote. She wants the votes in Dearborn, Michigan. She wants the votes of the radicals, the anti Semites on college campuses. And I gotta say. And we should wrap up on this. I want to play the answer she gave when asked about Israel on 60 Minutes. The actual answer she gave. And then I want us to play what 60 Minutes aired because we mentioned before the phrase word salad. This word salad answer is truly remarkable. And so let's play initially what she said in the actual interview. And then we'll go to what they.
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Ted Cruz
Are, and then the 60 Minute fabulous edit. That's the only way to describe it. They knew it was bad, so let's fix it. Here it is.
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Sean Theory
But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
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Kamala Harris
Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
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Ted Cruz
Now, that is the original answer. All right, so it was 27 seconds long.
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Ben Ferguson
So they tweeted that out before the interview aired. So it was public in the Twitterverse, and people were vicious in mocking it because it's so lacking in content, it doesn't say anything. So here's what 60 Minutes actually aired.
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Sean Theory
But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
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Kamala Harris
We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
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Ted Cruz
That's a completely different answer.
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Ben Ferguson
Holy cow. Listen, that's not 60 minutes. That's like 57 minutes. And it makes you wonder, what else did they edit out? What other answers did she give that the 60 minute producers buried their head in their hands and said, oh, no, if people see this, they're not gonna vote for it, and we need her to vote for. Now, look, I'm gonna be mixed in my commentary on 60 Minutes because I will say at least they asked the question on quadrupling the number of illegal immigrants. That was important. And her refusal to answer it was important, so they didn't edit that out. But on Israel, they just couldn't stomach letting her answer stand on its own merits. And they tried to help her out, and they actually got caught, which I gotta say, I think has done real damage to their credibility going forward.
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Ted Cruz
Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week. Now, on to story number two.
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John Fetterman
You need to understand the ideological rot that has infused so much of our elite academy. And by the way, it's been a year since October 7th. Have you noticed the protests on the campus? They're not springing up organically. They're not spontaneous. Am I the only one who's noticed that the tents all match? There is real money funding these anti Israel, anti Semitic, anti American protests. And that money is coming from Iran, that money is coming from Qatar, and that money is coming. Coming from prominent leftists in this country who are also funding prominent Politicians in this country, I want to ask you, in a year, has there been a single investigation by the Department of justice or the FBI to follow the money? Under Title 6 of our Civil rights law, a university cannot create an environment that is threatening to the safety of a student based on race or ethnicity. Has there been a single university in America who's had their federal funding cut off because they refused to protect Jewish students on campus? The answer is no. Not one. That's not an accident. We need a Department of justice that stands with our students. By the way, I will note the protesters that were arrested in University of Texas, roughly half of them had no connection to ut. They weren't students there. They just came in to agitate and threaten violence. The same was true at Columbia. The same was true at Fordham, that when people have been arrested, about half of them are either radical Islamist or Marxists or just anti American paid, violent thugs. Clarity matters. And by the way, I will say that clarity is not entirely delineated on partisan bases. I will say one of the most astonishing things to me has been the courage my colleague John Fetterman has shown on this topic. I'll confess, when Senator Fetterman was elected from Pennsylvania, I had no reason to anticipate that he would show that kind of courage. But he has been astonishing. And I will say, when giving a commencement address, when he removed his hood from Harvard University as a fellow Harvard grad, I was proud that he was willing to stand up to the shameful behavior of his. In my alma mater, clarity is an opportunity for everyone on each and every day to decide, where do I stand? There is a second enormously beneficial outcome of the horror and evil that was October 7th, which is that Israel has stated its commitment to utterly and completely eliminate Hamas and now eliminate Hezbollah. And I have to say, eliminating Hamas and eliminating Hezbollah is unquestionably in the national security interest of Israel and unquestionably in the national security interest of America. And US Policy should very simply be, we stand unequivocally with Israel for as long as it takes. I listen to colleagues of mine in the Senate and the House who their only response to what happens in Israel is, we need a ceasefire now. What is it that leads American politicians to say our view should be, please, please, please stop killing the terrorists? When I got on Southwest Airlines this morning and flew from Houston to Dallas to come here today, a woman standing in the line came up to me and said, please, we need a ceasefire now. On the one year anniversary of October 7th, I'll tell you. Month after month after month, every Saturday morning at 7am I had anti Israel, anti Semitic protesters in my front lawn, screaming, yelling, ringing cowbells, blowing whistles, screaming expletives at the top of their lungs, waking up my daughters, waking up my neighbors and their young children, week after week after week. And I'll tell you when I encounter, as I do with some regularity, people on airplanes who will yell at me, we need a ceasefire now. And I ask them, really tell me, why is it that you side with genocidal maniacs carrying out Nazi ends? How do you look at what happened and say, the murderers and rapists are the ones we stand with? But part of it is a lot of people are lied to. They don't know the truth. They are being told. The victims in our definition are the good and the oppressors are the evil. That's why that clarity needs to continue. I will say if you look at Israel's distribution of pagers, I've got to say that is one of the most extraordinary intelligence and military operations I have ever seen. When I saw it on the news, when I read about. Read like a James Bond novel. If you. I don't know if any of y'all are fans of the show Fowda. Fowda is phenomenal. If you tried to write it in a plot of Fowda, they wouldn't publish it because they would have said, this is ridiculous. And I will say what was truly elegant about it is the people who received the pagers were decided by the leadership of Hezbollah. The leaders of Hezbollah said, all right, you are enough of a genocidal murderer that I want you on page. They selected every person, and then they got their page. And then a few days later, they said, let's go to walkie talkies. And the walkie talkies blew up. And then at the head of Hezbollah said, let's go to a basement bunker and meet in person. And then the basement bunker blew up. And if you want to understand where someone stands, look to their reaction to that. Let me tell you, I think it is beautiful that psychopathic terrorists are terrified now to pick up the phone and pick up the pager and go meet with another terrorist. That is unequivocally good for Israel and America. We are seeing forces across the globe arrayed against the people of Israel. And I will tell you in particular, if you want to prevent another October 7th, if you want to save innocent lives in Israel and America, then you've got to start by focusing on the nation of Iran. If Iran is the head of the stake. I will say. In the last four years, the U.S. government has funneled over $100 billion to Iran. We all know about the 6 billion that got the most attention. That was 6 billion in ransom for five Americans. I and many others at the time said that's a terrible policy. It will only encourage more Americans to be taken hostage. It effectively puts a bounty on of 1.2 billion per hostage. Tragically, when we said that, I didn't realize it would be just a couple of months before we would see more Americans taken hostage. Some of you may also know about the 10 billion in funds that were frozen in Iraq from electricity receipts that the administration unfroze to flow to Iran. Both of those, however, pale in comparison to the real source of revenue. Iran derives the bulk of its revenue from from oil and gas sales. When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came into office four years ago, Iran was at the time selling roughly 300,000 barrels of oil a day. That was a consequence of the previous administration vigorously enforcing oil sanctions. I had spent hundreds of hours urging President Trump to vigorously enforce oil sanctions on Iran. He did so, and their oil sales plummeted from a million barrels a day to 300,000 in January of 2021. The Iranian economy was in shambles. The Iranian regime was teetering and near collapse. And the current administration came in and immediately stopped enforcing those oil sanctions. What are the consequences of that? Iran's oil sales went from 300,000 barrels a day where they were in January of 2021. Do you know what they are today? Roughly 2 million barrels of oil a day, primarily sold to Communist China. What is the delta? Between 300,000 barrels a day and 2 million barrels a day. It is more than $80 billion that came in like a lifeline to save the regime. I told you, this is a battle between good and evil. The Ayatollah Khamenei, unambiguously evil. He leads mobs in chants of death to Israel and death to America. Now, if history teaches anything, it is that when somebody tells you they want to kill, you believe them. And you need to understand this is not just a threat to Israel. There is a reason the Ayatollah refers to Israel as the Little Satan. America is the Great Satan. The enemies of Israel are enemies of America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians. And I have to say, if any sanity comes from the aftermath of October 7, it is that we should agree to come together and cut off all of the funds for Iran. Two statistics that are important to know, over 90% of the funding for Hamas comes from Iran. Over 90% of the funding for Hezbollah comes from Iran. If you are giving $100 billion to Iran, you are giving the money to the terrorists who are committing these atrocities. I gotta say, regardless of your politics, it should not be a complicated proposition to say do not give money to people who want to murder you. And yet somehow in Washington that's deemed a controversial statement.
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Ted Cruz
As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and download the podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing. I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed. If you're listening to this right now or you're watching this, when you think about going from $50,000 race to a million dollars against you, that's a political assassination on your career. That's saying we're just going to buy a winner and make sure you're a loser because that's how much we want to punish you and make sure everybody else stays in line.
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Sean Theory
Exactly. I always tell folks it was literally to make an example out of me and to warn others. Don't get any bright ideas. Don't stand up there and speak out and tell the truth for your constituents because we will Sean theory you and put over a million dollars in your race. But I said it on the House floor. You know, I always say sunlight is the best disinfectant, Senator. And so I did rip the lid off of it and I exposed the harms and I exposed the hypocrisy. You talked about 18 being such a reasonable age. Every policy that the Democrats put forth is usually to raise the age. This is the only area where not only do they not want to set the age, they want no age. If they want to raise the age from 18 to 21 for to have a gun, we raise the age from 18 to 21 to buy tobacco, cigarettes, which everyone you know, agreed. We raised the age from 18 to 21 to work in a sexually oriented business. We have acknowledged. They said they're the party of science. They said the frontal lobe of the brain is not developed until almost 25.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah.
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Sean Theory
Why on earth are Democrats saying, as you said very well, Senator, that a child as young as nine who hasn't even entered puberty has the capacity to sign away their future in terms of being castrated and sterilized? What is this?
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Ben Ferguson
So. So tell us the sort of things. What did your then fellow Democrats say to you as this is all going Down. What sort of conversation did y'all have?
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Sean Theory
Well, I guess the cat kind of got out of the bag that there was a potential dissident who wasn't going along with the program. And so they started pulling me to the side, usually in, like, groups of three, then groups of six, and telling me, you know, Sean, what. What's going on here?
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Ted Cruz
A lot of these are your friends, right? I mean, these are the people.
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Sean Theory
Yeah, people are. They're colleagues. Colleagues. Some friends. The friends were the ones that really just came with the warning. They said, shawn, listen, Because I was pulling out papers and showing what Lupron does, showing that it causes early onset osteoporosis and that some of these cross.
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Ben Ferguson
Sect tell our viewers and listeners what is Lupron. So give some of those details.
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Sean Theory
Sure. So Lupron is the drug that they want to give children in America to stop them from going into puberty. It is prescribed for men who have prostate cancer. It is a chemotherapy drug. This is a drug we are giving children that do not have cancer the only other use for it. It gets even grosser that they want to give it to children. This drug is given as a chemical castration drug to child rapist, to pedophiles.
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Ted Cruz
And they're giving it to kids because they say, or the parents say, they want to transition at the age of 8 or 9 or 10.
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Ben Ferguson
By the way, if the kids, when they get older, they change their mind. Much of this is irreversible. If you have a teenage girl who has a double mastectomy, you don't get your breasts back.
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Sean Theory
That's right.
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Ben Ferguson
That's right. That's permanent and forever.
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Sean Theory
It's too late. And that's what the Lupron is for. It is to put you on the trajectory for a sex change, to make it easier. Because if your body never develops in the first place, it's that much easier to start mutilating and amputating body parts. So I started to meet. Now, you talked about transitioning. There's a group of young people called D transitioners. These were the kids. They're now many of them are grown that went through this, that have deep regret. And they visited the Capitol as well. Unfortunately, their voices were shut out by these radical activists. They didn't want us to listen to these kids.
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Ted Cruz
Wow.
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Sean Theory
I met a young lady who. Who had a double mastectomy and a full hysterectomy. She's only 26.
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John Fetterman
Wow.
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Sean Theory
She said, rep theory, crying in the hallway. To me, I have the biological profile now of a 72 year old woman.
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Ted Cruz
She said biological profile was 72 year old woman.
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Sean Theory
She's in full menopause. She's 24. She said, my bone, breaking my bones hurt me so badly. She was on so much testosterone. So now she said, I realized I never really wanted to be a boy. She said I was love bombed. And I said, well, tell me more about that. And she said, I was a lonely child, a girl. She said, I think I'm gay. She said, but I don't want to be a man. And she said, but I watched a lot of YouTube. And she met these transgender ideologists who love bombed her. And then she told her mom, her mom was scared. She took her to her gender clinic somewhere outside of Austin. Despite what they tell you, she said in 30 minutes they had a letter authorizing for her to get on all of these hormones.
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Ted Cruz
Wow, 30 minutes. And they always say that there's all this profiling that's done and all these interviews and mental, you know, they look at everything. 30 minutes. Here's your letter. Go change sex of a child.
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Sean Theory
Absolutely. And Senator, here's the part that really got me. She said that they told her mother because her mom thought she was doing the right thing. Her mom wasn't one of those women that was pushing it on her kid.
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Ben Ferguson
Right.
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Sean Theory
You can either have a dead daughter or a living son threatening her mother that she would kill herself. And she said, I never said that. She said, she goes. But then I started to believe that. And so when I was talking to the d transitioners, they even took a photo of me, I think it's on Twitter somewhere. And it said, look at Rep theory, you know, meeting with these. They called the detransitioners a hate group. These were lg.
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Ted Cruz
They're saying, we've already done this, listen to us. And then they called them a hate group.
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Sean Theory
Yeah, that I was meeting with a hate group, that I was anti lgbtq.
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Ben Ferguson
What's amazing is there's no compassion for these kids and the life altering decisions that I think in many instances it's adults who are foisting it on them. So let me ask you, if you listen to the media, if you listen to the conventional wisdom, Republicans are a bunch of intolerant bigots. You were a four time elected Democrat representative, you flipped over to the Republican party. What has the reaction on both sides been and what have you found?
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Sean Theory
Well, the reaction was one very welcoming, from the governor of Texas to the speaker of the House, to all of my colleagues, to just regular folks writing me on Facebook and inboxing me and saying, welcome, Rep Theory. Praise God, we're so grateful to have you. So there was none of this boogeyman racism that people that the Democrat party is using to fear monger, I think half of America. But I knew that because I served with these folks. And you know, all of this talk of calling people bigots and Nazis and white supremacists, it was always so bizarre to me because I would sit with my colleagues who were saying those things and they would be in the members lounge five minutes later sharing ice cream.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah.
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Sean Theory
With these very folks that they were calling Nazis. And then they actually started calling me a Nazi. And I'm like, me, I'm a black woman. I'm a. Okay, I'm a Nazi now. So, Senator, I knew, you know, that that was just a bunch of crazy talk. The Democrats had been, like I said, from the moment I stood up on that bill. I started getting death threats the night before because the cat got let out the bag. That Rep Theory is probably going to vote in favor of setting the age.
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Ben Ferguson
Did any other Democrats cross over and vote for the bill?
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Sean Theory
Three others. Three others. So four. And they told me, each one of them said they would not have done it but for hearing my speech. I gave a 12 minute speech on the House floor.
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Ben Ferguson
It's, I think it's on YouTube and it's gone viral.
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Sean Theory
It went viral. The letter I wrote explaining it got over 2 1/2 million views on Twitter. But if you watch it, my hands were shaking, my voice was cracking because I was so sleep deprived. Because for days, you know, they had just been harassing me and pounding me and threatening me and trying to change.
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Ted Cruz
My mind during a submission.
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Sean Theory
Absolutely. Just like a cult. And there was one colleague who, you said, who could be a friend. And I remember he pulled me to the side and he said to me, sean, hold your nose. You better hold your nose and vote with us if you want to make it back here. And I just looked him in the face and said, I can't do that. I can't do it.
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Ted Cruz
A lot of people listening are gonna ask, are you a cautionary tale? Are you safe now in your elected position? What's the end of the story for your career when it comes to this position that clearly you won four times?
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Sean Theory
Well, I did not win my seat for reelection. I went to a runoff.
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Ted Cruz
That's the question that everybody listening right now is like, what happened?
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Ben Ferguson
They beat her in the Democrat primary.
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John Fetterman
With a million bucks. Worked.
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Sean Theory
They found a candidate who said she was A dual identity. Queer black woman that had never run for office. I'd never seen her in the district. One time, volunteering, doing anything. It never served. Put the money behind that candidate. And even though nobody knew her, she. She won. However, I always say there's a comma, not a period there. Okay. As I said, again, that's a. That's a temporary pit stop. Um, my dad, who passed away, I share. We were talking about our fathers when we sat down and talked. And before my dad passed away, it must have been very fortuitous of him. For no reason at all. He was in the hospital, and he looked at me and he said, sean, I want you to promise me one thing. I was like, of course, Daddy. And he said, don't ever let the power and the prestige of the position cause you to sell your soul.
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Ted Cruz
Amen to that.
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Sean Theory
And I didn't. And I stayed with that. So I think people need to look at it and say, you can survive it. I'm still here. They censored me, but they did not silence me. So I think that the good news is you can survive it. I've switched parties, not because I'm so much politically ambitious, but because I'm a citizen, I'm an American, and I want to do what's right for my country. And so now I'm speaking out. I'm using whatever platform I have to educate Americans and senators. So many folks, and I'll even say African American voters have come to me and said, Rep. Fury, if only I had known. I didn't even know the Democrat Party was up to this.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, Sean, thank you for your courage and thank you for sharing your story. Stories are powerful. A lot of what we try to do on this podcast is tell stories, stories that impact people's lives, stories that are reality. As you know, the. The media has their own narrative that they want to convince people of. And it's part of the reason we've seen things like podcasts grow so much is people are hungry for the truth. And so I appreciate you coming and joining us, and thank you for standing up as always.
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Ted Cruz
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